Comments on: TweetChat: Twitter for meetings – but it’s a tossed salad

By: long

long — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:09:02 +0000

hi,sky,
Thanks!

By: Sky

Sky — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:31:01 +0000

I tried @tweetchat, but there are very few followers and no information. There is no information on the TweetChat site to speak of. Sorry.

By: long

long — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:51:16 +0000

Hi, How could I find the developer of tweetchat? I have some question about it.

Could you help me to get his email or twitter account?

By: Twitter is like shouting at a dinner party - Sky’s Blog

Twitter is like shouting at a dinner party - Sky’s Blog — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:02:12 +0000

[…] closed. Related to my earlier article about TweetChat as a Twitter-based mechanism for chats or meetings, here is more conversation on similar […]

By: Sky

Sky — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:30:25 +0000

Talk about weird. Turns out that if you put @someone at THE BEGINNING of a tweet, then only that person and his/her followers will see your tweet. It is called a REPLY. This reduces the “splatter” that I mentioned in the article.

But it only works this way if your followers have chosen this behavior. (It didn’t exist when I first signed up for Twitter, so I was unaware of it.)

It does look to me like if you put @someone in “the middle” of a tweet, then it probably goes to everyone.

This makes tweets quite context-sensitive. I’m not sure I like this…

By: Learnlets » Chatting

Learnlets » Chatting — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:56:43 +0000

[…] what my colleague Sky (Jim Schuyler) noticed was that all those tweets were flooding the twitterverse. In fact, he found out about #lrnchat […]

By: Sky

Sky — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:04:27 +0000

Brooks, thank you for checking in. Tweetchat is an example of how one can build a new capability on top of an old one that has the appropriate “hooks” (API). TweetChat functions perfectly, and provides a “moving window” into a hashtagged conversation or thread within Twitter. My critique, of course, is focused on the fringe areas where the functionality of TweetChat kinda bumps up against the functionality of Twitter like an iceberg bumping up against the Titanic. But, I hope you can think of something that will mitigate the bumpiness.

I will hear more from my “followers” today about whether they were bothered by the “spray” from my tweetchat yesterday.

By: Brooks Bennett

Brooks Bennett — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:12:08 +0000

Thanks for the writeup! I am the developer of TweetChat, you can follow me @brooksbennett. By the way, my middle name is Sky.

By: marciamarcia

marciamarcia — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:25:23 +0000

Thanks for joining us and weighing in, Jim. To address at least one of the issues you raise, I send a tweet at the beginning of chats like these to the people who follow me that says, basically:

#learnchat 2nite 8-10pET means I update status more than usual. It’s chat 4ppl w/ passion 4learning. Always educational. http://sn.im/lrnin

And then I practice writing my tweets so they make sense to any reader even if they didn’t hear the question. I see these as an opportunity for us to improve our 140ch communications and also widen the circle, and it seems we met that goal last night.

I hope you’ll join us again next week.

– Marcia

twitter.com/marciamarcia
http://www.marciaconner.com